Dizzy:Â “Having a keyboard player in the band was something they talked to me about a long time ago, I never really thought it would happen. I go “Dude I’m starving. As of tomorrow I’ll have no phone, no apartment, no food, no nothing and if you guys need to know where to get a hold of me I can’t tell you where I’m gonna be.'” The next day he got a call telling him he was in the band. “Basically, they fuckin’ saved my life.”

Steven:Â “Looking back, I realize that this may have been proof positive that their plan to get me out of the band was already in full motion. They weren’t cluing me in to new songs or even telling me what they were playing. I believe their strategy was to make my playing sound like this. I believe they wanted me to fuck up on live TV; that would be their evidence. By branding me as an ill-equipped, crappy drummer, they’d be armed with a sound reason for kicking me out.”

Slash:Â “The second we walked out onstage, Steven took a run up to the drum riser, which is a pretty big platform that’s hard to miss, and took flight. […] Steven hobbled through the show, and our performance was dodgy at best, though well received by the Farm Aid crowd. […] There couldn’t have been a better way for Steven to reveal to us that he’d been lying about being clean.”

Slash:Â [om Civil War]Â “That was actually one of the first songs Axl and I wrote after Appetite. The tour wasn’t even finished, Axl heard me playing this acoustic thing and we started rehearsing it with the band in Australia (1988). It was also the first song where we went in the studio with Steven and realised that he wasn’t really playing up to par.”

Steven [om Andy McCoy]:“His wife â€” if she’s still his wife â€” used to be Izzy’s [Stradlin, ex-GUNS N’ ROSES] girlfriend back in the day. She’s the biggest cunt, slut, whore, loser, piece of shit I’ve ever met in my life! After they let me go from GN’R, Andy was living up the street from me. We started writing together. He would come down and I would say, ‘Do not bring that goofy wife of yours!’ I’d be in the front yard and I’d see him up the hill and I’d flip him off because he was bringing her. One afternoon we were playing and I had a locked gate. The wife and Erin Everly [Axl Rose’s ex-girlfriend] come over. Axl and Erin had got in a fight. That’s what really did it. This girl gave her valium and some other stuff and kept telling me to give her heroin. There is now way in hell I would ever do anything to Erin, even sexually. The closest we ever got was eating sushi in Studio City once. Three guys came in with shotguns and robbed the place while we were there. They took everybody’s shit but ours! I’ve always been a big fan of Michael Monroe and Andy McCoy. Michael got to play on the ‘Use Your Illusion’ stuff. Me, Slash, and Duff wrote the music. I only got to play on ‘Civil War’. We’re doing that one live, too.” [Kilde]

Steven:Â â€œAll of a sudden the family thing turned into little cliques. Duff and Slash would hang out, Izzy would disappear, Axl – god knows what he was doing. I was hanging out with the crew guys. Then the crew guys, if they were seen hanging out with me they would get a reprimand. It was terrible.â€Â [Kilde]

Matt:Â â€œI was going to just do the albums and Steven was going to come back and do the tour. Steven was going through a lot of personal stuff. I was temporarily there. But as time progressed, maybe a couple of weeks into the session Slash pulled me aside, and said it didnâ€™t look as if Steven was coming back and asked if Iâ€™d like to join the band.Â Here I was in an already successful band that I was very happy with, but to be offered that gig at the time was the highest level you can imagine. If you compare it to whatâ€™s out there now, I donâ€™t think thereâ€™s anyone that can compare to that level.â€Â [Kilde]

Axl:Â “One song, has a verse about life in L.A., and the chorus came when I was at home and couldn’t figure one out. All of a sudden Gabby started beating on the walls and had her television cranked on 10 to bother me, and I just wrote this chorus called ‘Right Next Door to Hell.’ It works really well.”

Duff:Â “Guns did the third anniversary RIP (US rock magazine) party – thatâ€™s got to be three years ago now – and I jumped into the crowd, did a little stagedive. The place was fuckinâ€™ packed but I jumped and all of a sudden the Red Sea just parted, man! 12 feet straight down – BOOM! Thanks for catching me, you guys! I didnâ€™t think there was any room for them to move. Then everyone started jumping on top of me and somebody grabbed the old chain and fuckinâ€™ ripped it off my neck – it wouldnâ€™t go over my head – to add insult to injury while Iâ€™m laying there bleeding on the floor.”